Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Friday, Dec 26, 2003
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Human Resources GrapeCity to double headcount in India Vipin V. Nair
New Delhi , Dec. 25 GRAPECITY Group, a Japanese software company, will double the number of its people in the India development centre in the next one year as the company plans to move more work to India. "By the end of next year, we will have 200-250 people in India. A new facility will be ready at Noida by April 2004," said Mr Monte Rosen, Chief Marketing Officer, GrapeCity. Currently, GrapeCity has around 120 persons in India. The company plans to invest $4 million in India for the new facility, which can house 350. "We see huge growth opportunity in India," Mr Rosen told Business Line. The company plans to service the US market from India through the offshore route. Implementation of Microsoft's ERP and CRM software is one of such services. For the Japanese market, the Indian arm would develop new features on an accounting package and help convert that software into the Microsoft .NET platform. Software product and services companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and Accenture are hiring more in India to benefit from the low cost and higher quality of Indian software engineers. These companies employ thousands in India now. "We are taking up large projects in the US, ranging from application services to design and architecture," Mr Rosen said. GrapeCity, a $40-million company employing 450 persons, has been in India since 1996. It also sells its PowerTool range of software components to Indian software vendors. Currently, there are over 200 users for the PowerTool software in India. The company has around 200 staff in Mongolia, catering to the Chinese market. "Compared to India, the domestic market for software such as ERP in China is huge and our team there is focused on servicing the local clients," he said.
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